Olympic cauldron will return to Paris skies every summer until the 2028 LA Games

The cauldron provided an iconic image of the Games.

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday that the Olympic balloon and cauldron that became an icon of the Paris Games is set to return to the capital every summer until the 2028 Games in Los Angeles. Macron said the balloon would return to the same Tuileries Gardens where it was launched during the Games, near the Louvre museum.

The flame-free Olympic balloon tethered to a cauldron that was an iconic symbol of last summer's Games in Paris is to return to the French capital every year up until the next edition in Los Angeles in 2028, President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday.

"It will return every summer... until the Los Angeles Games," Macron wrote on X above an image of the balloon rising into the Paris night sky last summer, one of the unforgettable sights of the hugely successful 2024 summer Olympics.

Macron said that the balloon would return to the position it enjoyed during the Games, in the Tuileries gardens close to the Louvre museum, from an annual music festival on June 21 to a yearly sports festival the president is keen to introduce every year on September 14.

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Every evening during the Games, weather permitting, the balloon soared into the air, creating a new symbol for Paris.

"It's very, very good news."

(AFP)


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